Last week was a bit crazy, so I am playing a little bit of catch up.

We linked to a story by Nancy Vogel in the Los Angeles Times where, after much controversy swirled about Fabian Nunez buying thousands of dollars in french wines on a European junket, it turns out that Nunez foisted the wine on the California Democratic Party. 

Well, last Friday the fine folks at the No on 93 campaign gave a gift to Speaker Nunez.  They had delivered to his office a bottle of Charles Shaw Chardonnay.  Those in the know refer to Shaw as "Two Buck Chuck" because that’s all it costs.  It’s thrifty, its American, and I am sure it ended up in the Speaker’s sterling silver trash can.

The No on 93 folks say that, "Admittedly, the bottle of Two Buck Chuck was purchased at a Trader Joe’s in Sacramento and not at L’Avant Garde wine shop in France. But the next time the Speaker is discussing the impact of global warming on the French wine industry while pouring wine for his lobbyist friends he can just tell them they are tasting a double gold medal winner. Mais oui!"

Of course, over the weekend Edwin Garcia from the Media News team wrote an entire story in the Contra Costa Times (that appears today in the San Jose Mercury News) that is all about Nunez and how he has lost touch with his base, now that he is living the "high life"…

The posterchild for No on 93 continues to strut his stuff.  There are a lot of reasons to oppose loosening term limits.  Six more years of Fabian "Louis Vuittan" Nunez as Speaker tops the list.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.